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Table 2 Different Accelerations in the falling progress

From: The morphometric of lycopsid sporophylls and the evaluation of their dispersal potential: an example from the Upper Devonian of Zhejiang Province, China

Balanced velocity (m/s)

Distance of fall

Small Reynolds numbers

Large Reynolds numbers

90% (m)

95% (m)

90% (m)

95% (m)

0.500

0.036

0.053

0.021

0.030

1.000

0.143

0.209

0.085

0.119

2.000

0.572

0.835

0.339

0.475

5.679

  

2.718

3.832

5.833

4.868

7.100

  
  1. The distance of fall means when the samaras fall such distance the velocity reaches the appropriate percentage of the balanced velocity